We Are Mercenaries

Sellswords, Guns for Hires and other Ne'er-Do-Wells.

[gudgurkan]

You’re one of my biggest art inspirations and your art has made me want to start drawing more armor. Do you have any advice?

Thank you so much anon! Glad to hear that!!

I think the biggest help when you’re starting out with armor is using reference. That’ll help you get a feel for which parts there are, and how they interact. Do a mix of studies of armor photos, and using reference to add armor to custom poses.

I held an armor design workshop last year, and I can upload my slides with some comments too! I’m away from home on vacation at the moment, but will do that when I get back.

In the meantime, I have a couple of old posts about armor:

Gudgurkan

Here's a ⭐️ tutorial ⭐️ on my approach to drawing armor!

Gudgurkan

Any tips for drawing chain mail? Here's a quick guide to how I do it

Hope that helps!

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[wearemercs]

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Vintage Story by ArtsGauthier

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Knight by LonelysoundR

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OC by A_zero9

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Warrior Nun by artthrall

[anmakguse]

got inspired by the view of some the armour and decided to sketch what Norvikian clerics might look like (i was mostly thinking about Ragn)

i gave them mace (base weapon for clerics) and short swords bc in game there was Urthguard blade described as "One-handed usage, lightweight" So yeah i assumed it's a shortsword and Ragn was trained as Urthguard so i guess he can wield one even though he's an arcane cleric

clerics specifically proficient in light\medium armour so they're wearing chain shirts NOT chain mail second heavier than first one and can wear Breastplate and Half Plate but NOT full Plate Armour bc heavy armor set more paladin stuff AND brigandine technically a medium armour

and as official symbol i decided to add either Great Perch (he literally everywhere and it was said on several occasions that Big P is symbol of Norvik) or The Red Eye of Urth bc....well he's their god so that would make sense if clerics would have his symbol on the uniform

and genuinely thank you reddit r/ArmsandArmor i'm such a nerd

[wearemercs]

Black Knight by Gemi Ningen

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[prokopetz]

The really funny thing about folks dutifully trotting out the old "well ACTUALLY Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition commercially underperformed because it's just tabletop World of Warcraft" line every single time I discuss the economic realities of 4E's publication is the cyclical nature of those complaints.

When 4E came out in 2008, people complained it was trying to turn D&D into tabletop World of Warcraft because it has explicit class roles.

When 3E came out in 2000, people complained it was trying to turn D&D into tabletop Diablo because it has feat trees and magic item affixes.

When 1E came out in 1977, people unfavourably compared it to the then-nascent medium of computer games because the Dungeon Master's Guide contains too many tables; they probably would have called it a tabletop roguelike if not for the fact that the term "roguelike" did not yet exist, the publication of Rogue being three years in the future.

We have been doing the "[edition of D&D] in some respect vaguely resembles [computer game], and that's bad" thing for fifty goddamn years. We've been doing it since practically the very moment computer games existed for comparison to them to be made.

(For the folks about to well-actually that Rogue was technically only one year in the future on account of the fact that 1E's Dungeon Master's Guide was delayed until 1979: I see you.)

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A Sunflower Knight by Torin Quinn Carignan

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by boiledlemon

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by boiledlemon

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Armored Teto by gadgetshrimp

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Mercenaries

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[orcposts]

ORC AFFIRMATIONS

My scars are COOL and TUSKY

My scars DO look like I got them during RITUAL COMBAT

My scars DO NOT look like I got them by tripping over a RUSTY FENCE concealed by TREACHEROUS UNDERBRUSH

MY SCARS ARE VALID NO MATTER WHAT GORM SAYS

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Listening and nodding sympathetically: I dunno dude sounds like you should kill gorm

[orcposts]

i should kill gorm